Business Valuations

Raising capital isn’t easy, but luckily you can make all the right things ahead of time to be good to go when opportunity knocks. Fortune favors the prepared founder. February 20, 2018 4 min read Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Advances in technology have given way to ...

September 21, 2017Business ValuationsComments Off on Listen to Warren Buffett and Find Out This One Thing About Your Business…

Billionaire investor Warren Buffett once told an audience at a business school graduation that business valuation was the most important course that they could take. He’s right — understanding the worth of your business gives you a tool to measure profit, achievement and loss. Business value should form the basis of ...

September 19, 2017Business ValuationsComments Off on 6 Famous Entrepreneurs Who Show How Your Personal Brand Powers Deal Flow…

Your personal brand is your calling card for attracting like-minded people who will believe in your message. Whether you are a freelancer, startup or you just received your first round of financing, the effort you put into your personal brand directly affects how others perceive the value of your business. ...

July 2, 2017Business ValuationsComments Off on Avoid These Financing Mistakes That Kill Business Valuations…

Having a well-financed business that doesn’t rely on bad sources of debt goes a long way to making a company attractive to buyers and ensuring that it fetches an attractive valuation. But, the choices that produce a good balance sheet don’t happen overnight; it takes years of preparation to ensure ...

June 7, 2017Business ValuationsComments Off on The $10 Billion Club: Meet the 7 Most Valuable Startups in the U.S….

Over the past several years, we’ve seen a rise in private companies valued at more than a billion dollars — the so-called “unicorns.” But when too many startups became unicorns, a new class of startups emerged: “decacorns,” companies valued at more than $10 billion. These are the Ubers and Airbnbs of the ...

May 31, 2017Business ValuationsComments Off on Is Your Business Approaching 409A Valuations the Right Way?…

Nonqualified deferred compensation can be a confusing legal and financial topic for your company. As described by IRS section 409A, this is compensation that workers earn in one year, but that is paid in a future year. Related: 5 Tips to Getting an Accurate Valuation And planning for it is ...

May 22, 2017Business ValuationsComments Off on Apple Becomes First Company Worth More Than $800 Billion…

Reader Resource Apply now to be an Entrepreneur 360™ company. Let us tell the world your success story. Get Started » This week, Apple was valued at more than $800 billion. It marked the first time that the company’s market capitalization ever reached that figure, breaking its own record from ...

Reader Resource Apply now to be an Entrepreneur 360™ company. Let us tell the world your success story. Get Started » This week marks Amazon’s 20th anniversary as a public company, and the ecommerce giant has something to celebrate. Before the market opened on Monday, Amazon was valued at $459 ...

April 8, 2017Business ValuationsComments Off on Why Not Knowing Your Business's Worth Could Cost You Millions…

“What’s your business worth?” is a difficult question to answer, especially for small businesses. In fact, according to a 2014 IBISWorld report on “Business Valuation Firms in the U.S.,” 98 percent of business owners don’t know the value of their company; those that do tend to be large companies that have the finances ...

Mobile payments company Square Inc is set to price shares for its initial public offering late Wednesday in what is expected to be a harbinger for how other highly valued tech companies are received in their public debuts. San Francisco-based Square, run by Twitter Inc Chief Executive Jack Dorsey, is ...